Bees Quote by Michael Pollan

“Natural beauty, for Darwin, was not just aesthetic; it always reflected function and adaptation at work. Orchids were not just ornamental, to be displayed…

— Oliver Sacks

“In neither general nor special Darwinism should the 'strong' be confused for the 'colorful' or the 'noisy,' and the 'selection' process shan't ever stray…

— G Rodrigues

Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.

— Herbert Gold

“But if humans can make new varieties of plants and animals, must not nature do so also? This related process is called natural selection.…

— Carl Sagan

Nature appears not to have intended that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen.

— Christian Konrad Sprengel

The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring, variation, and…

— Stephen Jay Gould

As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence,…

— Charles Darwin

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

— Luther Burbank

“since many traits can affect an individual's adaptation to it's environment (it's "fitness") natural selection can over eons sculpt an animal or plant into…

— Jerry A. Coyne

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

— Ernst Mayr

“I'm what the botanists call a hybrid," he said the first time Cora heard him speak, "A mixture of two different families. In flowers,…

— Colson Whitehead